“building prisons is our number one social program for young men.” — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons. — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
“Rooms without a view are like prisons for the people who have to stay in them.” — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“Slavery was as customary as prisons are today. Few could imagine an ordered world without them.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system. — David Lidington Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
I am not saying people shouldn't be held accountable for terrible acts. But holding people in prisons does not necessarily make them… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“In the school suggestion box, brought out at times, Sting put in a scrap of notepaper advising the authorities to ban the… — James Berryman Copy Share Image
Being incarcerated does not mean being devoid of the capacity to learn, grow, and think, and it's critical that prisons provide spaces… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't… — Rob Woodall Copy Share Image
The fact that's why the prisons and stock in private prisons rose the very day after the election results [for Donald Trump]… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based… — Lex Luger Copy Share Image
“States do not grapple with decarceration strategies & explore alternatives bc of an ethical recognition of the continuing harms of prisons or… — Erica R. Meiners Copy Share Image
What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did.… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
“Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous… — Stephen Reid Copy Share Image
“CRIMINOLOGY Every year, chemical pesticides kill no fewer than three million farmers. Every day, workplace accidents kill no fewer than ten thousand… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“The percentage of drug arrests that result in prison sentences (rather than dismissal, community service, or probation) has quadrupled, resulting in a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of… — Amy Watkins Copy Share Image
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Worldwide, more men are raped in prisons each year than women outside” — Adam Anderson Copy Share Image
Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars. — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
“Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down...or prisons self-imposed.” — Chriscinthia Blount Copy Share Image
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